D.Labs Business Blog

Founders come to D.Labs with an idea that will change a market. They sometimes have strong funding in place, but they almost always have two key missing ingredients: An actual product (technology) and actual customers. Building technology is what D.Labs is about....

Blockchain (or distributed ledger technology) products are being developed right now by smart tech teams, entrepreneurs, startups, and enterprises all over the world. The current ICO hype mostly fuels the trend. The whole token crowd-sale process (a more appropriate...

My old friend Matjaž Slak from Cofound.it stopped by to discuss with a new client about their ICO (Initial Coin Offering) readiness. For those you living under a rock, ICOs have been red hot in 2017 as an alternative funding strategy for startups. Matjaž reports that...

All the “cool kids” are doing agile development, but there are many times it is not appropriate. Even worse, our experience is that “fake Agile” is the fastest way to kill efficiency and reduce accountability.

As a driver of technology teams, you need to understand terms like “Date Driven Development” and the consequences of such a label. If you are an early stage startup, there are probably some other “Driven Development” labels that are not universal but likely far more valuable.

Many customers already have an MVP or even a working product before they come to DLabs. Augmenting agile teams, taking over development, and refactoring for robustness are just of few of the reasons they come to us. However, this type of engagement must start very differently than a idea stage startup engagement.

This is a re-post of the article I originally posted here: https://medium.com/@sasojakljevic/my-research-on-how-to-win-a-hackathon-71d3761d1b23 In the month of October there are two hackathons coming up and I want to attend both of them. One with my team (Turist...

Project houses and freelance agencies like Upwork can be brutally efficient at standing up a well specified MVP. When you simply don’t have the cash or can’t see a way to get it anytime soon, this approach is often your only hope. This is also a viable approach when...